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Silverwolf:
I'm creating a website dedicated to Rockbox for the Sansa FUZE for a final project for one of my projects, and I want to use some of the documentation from this website.

I want to include information on how to install Rockbox both manually and using the RB Utility, and I'll possibly include information on how to compile Rockbox in Linux and Windows systems.

However, I'm not sure what kind of copyright information I should include for the stuff that I get from the Wiki, or the Manual, since that is under the GNU Free Documentation License. Is the Wiki under a similar license? What should I put for the copyright information?

Chronon:
Thank you for taking the time to ask.  It is unfortunate that this isn't clearly mentioned anywhere.  I am not in a position to speak for the project or to specify a license in absence of a clear statement.  The right to publish modified versions of content seems to be implicit in any wiki, but a specific license should be used to clear this up.

Hopefully, some of the administrators will see this.  You may get a useful reply faster if you pop in to the #rockbox IRC channel at Freenode (follow the IRC link in the sidebar for more info) and ask there. 

funman:
All I can see is the little "Copyright © by the contributing authors." at the bottom right of the wiki.

AFAIK there is no license for wiki content, but authors implicitly agree to share what they add.

So I don't know the answer to your questions but I would use the wiki content and simply mention where it comes from, and that I'm not the author of all its content.

soap:
I just want to mention that Rockbox, as a whole, is not very excited about install instructions posted outside official Rockbox servers.

Rockbox is an ever-changing project, and any instructions which get "mirrored" one day are subject to change the next.  This is why persistent instructions outside the control of Rockbox have proven to be harmful to the project in the past - the cause of pain and aggravation for users who don't realize they are being (unintentionally) misled.

I don't know if you are referring to the Fuze v1 or v2, but all I said is doubly true for "Unstable" targets, such as the v2.

All that said - I'm glad you've taken enough interest in Rockbox to incorporate it into a
(school?) project but kindly ask you make the ever-changing nature and possible outdated nature of your site's provided documentation as explicit as possible. 

Even better would be to scrape content - perhaps deep-linking the manual?  At least then your content would be broken instead of wrong if (drastic enough) changes happen.

Silverwolf:
Well, right now it's only going to be on the school server, and the only people who'll see it are my classmates. And I'll make sure that it is noted that this is an ever-changing project. Thank you guys

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